The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 266

‘I pray Heaven,’ went on the Canary, ‘that it will send you to sleep, and that the goose may burn, so that there may be none left for Titty.’

Who acts: I, canary, goose · What happens: pray, go, send, sleep, burn, leave · To what, where: Heaven, Canary, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, canary, goose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 pray	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 pray	nsubj
3	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pray	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pray	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Canary	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Canary	det
10	Canary	Canary	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 send	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 send	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 send	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 send	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 send	aux
16	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 send	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sleep	mark
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 send	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 burn	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 burn	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 burn	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 goose	det
24	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burn	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 burn	aux
26	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pray	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 be	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 be	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 be	expl
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 be	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 burn	advcl
33	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	32 be	nsubj
34	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 none	acl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 Titty	case
36	Titty	Titty	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 left	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pray	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray	present	I	Heaven				tree rules
2	go	past	I not said here			the Canary		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on canary=Location
3	send	future	canary		you			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	sleep	to-infinitive	canary not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	burn	may	the goose					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
6	leave	participle					for Titty	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for titty=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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